Re: Fed. Gov. Slaps a 53% Tax increase on Cigars & Pipe Tobaccos
- From: met00 <met00cigar@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:44:38 GMT
chris33432@xxxxxxx wrote:
Smoke shops around the country are stupefied. Cigar and Pipe Tobacco
Manufacturers are stunned. This entire affair sounds like a
description from the pages of one of the JK Rawling books, where
characters are hit by a "stunning" or "confunding" charm.
Yes, our children are very important and they are our future. The 1st
question is: Why should ONLY ONE SEGMENT of the economy shoulder the
responsibility of their medical needs. And we must not forget that
SCHIP also insure 600,000 adults, unborn children and pregnant women.
So who are we insuring?
The 2nd question is: Do these politicians, (who we must assume live in
cocoons) believe that there is going to be any revenue from these
taxes? Not really. Each state has its own taxes for tobacco. And
because of so many smoking bans the revenue from these taxes have
diminished drastically. Do these politicians really think that the
average cigar smoker is going to pay $15 to $20 for a cigar, when he
was paying $3 or $5? I don't think so.
The 3rd question is: Who else will this affect? All the cigar tobacco
countries; Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Honduras, etc. These
countries are directly dependent on exports to the US. - Cigar tobacco
is between 40% to 70% of their export to the US. It will be an
economical genocide for them. We will be responsible for their future
financial failures. And adding to that, who will pay for their
disaster relief when another hurricane devastates their land, again.
Is this the first time an action like this has been taken? No; years
ago the large boat or luxury boat industry went through the same
thing. From one day to another the boat construction industry was
passing to the consumer alarmingly high taxes. What happened? Oh, The
buyers went elsewhere. Europe, Mediterranean, anywhere they could buy
their boats cheaper. What happened? We can say that this segment of
our industry went bankrupt and barely exists.
Why is this happening? Well... elections of course. In two years we
will be electing a new president , some governors, some congressmen,
etc. Consequence? The further erosion of a wobbly economy. Nice...
Conclusion: Wouldn't a tax cut for the low and middle-income tax
payers, who currently can't afford health insurance be better? With
this tax break they would be able to purchase private insurance plans,
therefore helping to developing our economy instead of strangling it
further.
If you believe that someone else will take care of it. DON'T DO
ANYTHING.
If you believe in taking responsibility for what you want, click on
the link below (or cut and paste it) and contact your Congressman and
Senator. Thanks
http://rtda.org/legislation.html
There were two possible areas where there was considered funding. One was to tag it to tobacco, the other was to tag it to alcohol. Now guess which lobbying arm was stronger. Right, the cost of adding the tax to alcohol would have raised the cost of a beer about $0.07, a bottle of wine about $0.25 and a bottle of hard liquor about $0.30 and raised about three time the amount of taxes for the program. So, the alcohol industry fought and got the entire load pushed on to tobacco. Consider that for a moment.
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